Airports · Iowa · heliport · FAA file effective October 1, 2026

Iowa Lutheran Hospital Life Flight Heliport

IA98 · Des Moines, Iowa · Polk County · map

Iowa Lutheran Hospital Life Flight Heliport is a private heliport owned by Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa, 856 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 52 by 52 feet of asphalt.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA IA98
Kind: Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Owner: Iowa Lutheran Hospital
Elevation: 856 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Lights: runway lights see the remarks below
On the chart: Chicago sectional
Magnetic variation: 4E
In the FAA's files since: December 1980

This airport's record at the FAA

Landing pad

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Pad	Length × width	Surface	Lights
H1	52 × 52 ft	Asphalt	Perimeter lights

Aircraft registered in Des Moines from the FAA register

108 aircraft are registered to owners in Des Moines, Iowa: 70 piston singles, 15 turboprops, 8 balloons, 6 piston twins, 6 business jets. Not every one of them is based at this heliport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this heliport alone.

Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:

Ajf Enterprises LLC 6Dmfs Leasing LLC 4Iowa State Patrol 3State of Iowa 2Ruan INC 2Landus Cooperative 2Bell Avenue Aviation LLC 2Aviation Management II LLC 2Ajf Enterprises LLC DBA 2

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Iowa.

Accidents and incidents at or near this heliport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this heliport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Des Moines International DSM · 5 nm southwest Ankeny Regional IKV · 6 nm north Winterset Municipal 3Y3 · 23 nm southwest Ames Municipal AMW · 23 nm north Newton Muni-Earl Johnson Field TNU · 27 nm east Perry Municipal PRO · 28 nm northwest Knoxville Municipal OXV · 29 nm southeast Boone Municipal BNW · 29 nm north

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Provided approach/departure paths to landing area are maintd for a minimum 8:1 glide slope and trsnl surface be maintd for minimum 2:1 slope.
Medical.

Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.